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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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